Principal Pharmacist – Education and Training

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist to join our Principal Pharmacist team in our friendly department. We are looking for an exceptional candidate to provide leadership across both pharmacy and clinical education departments, with broad and exciting responsibilities. In addition to being the leader for education and training, the post-holder will form part of a dynamic senior team alongside the other Principal Pharmacists and Pharmacy Senior Leadership Team. Are you ready and willing to take on a key pharmacy leadership role? We expect our successful applicant to have significant clinical and training experience, be passionate about education, have proven leadership ability and vision. If you are a pharmacist with a passion for educating and developing others, we would love for you to join us.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a motivated, friendly, and supportive pharmacist to lead our education and training programme - both within the Pharmacy department and across the Clinical Education team. The provision of medicines related training across a variety of professions within the trust is well-established, and this position is central to the successful design and delivery of an innovative and progressive education and training strategy to develop and support a skilled and dynamic workforce for the future. The post-holder will manage the lead pharmacist for education and training, and be responsible for rotational pharmacist activities, whilst also supporting audits, evaluating clinical education projects, clinical guidelines, workforce development and the implementation of education interventions. Whist the role has a specialist interest in education, any successful candidate will continue to hone their pharmaceutical experience as an active member of the pharmacy department.

The successful candidate will benefit from working in a transformational, forward-thinking department, keen to develop them as a professional leader. They will receive support and mentorship from senior managers and be encouraged to seek further opportunities to develop their portfolio.

The department delivers 7 day ward based clinical pharmacy services and as such you will be required to participate in the weekend, late and on call rotas in conjunction with your dedicated role.

About us

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.